Trump Threatens Russia With Sanctions, Tariffs Until Putin Agrees to Ceasefire
The post comes after Russia attacked homes in Odesa.
President Donald Trump threatened Russia with sanctions and tariffs until Vladimir Putin agrees to a ceasefire.
Trump wrote on Truth Social:
Based on the fact that Russia is absolutely “pounding” Ukraine on the battlefield right now, I am strongly considering large scale Banking Sanctions, Sanctions, and Tariffs on Russia until a Cease Fire and FINAL SETTLEMENT AGREEMENT ON PEACE IS REACHED. To Russia and Ukraine, get to the table right now, before it is too late. Thank you!!!
The post comes after Russia attacked homes in Odesa.
It’s not just Odesa. From the BBC:
In Kharkiv, Ukraine’s second-largest city, eight people were wounded, and “a critical infrastructure facility” as well as a residential building were damaged, mayor Ihor Terekhov says.
Seven people, including two girls aged three and four, were wounded in Slovyansk, eastern Donetsk region, as the town was targeted by two Russian glide bombs, the head of the town’s military administration, Vadym Lyakhl, says. He adds that about 30 buildings were damaged or destroyed.
Also in Donetsk region, a child was injured in Kramatorsk, the local administration chief, Oleksandr Honcharenko, says.
Two people, including a child, were injured outside Myrhorod, central Ukraine, as missile debris fell on their house, the regional administration says.
A “production facility” was damaged outside Pryluky, a town east of Kyiv, according to the regional administration chief, Vyacheslav Chaus.
In the southern port city of Odesa, energy infrastructure and residential housing were damaged, the local authorities report.
In western Ukraine, the local authorities in Ternopil region say interruptions to gas supplies to the public are possible after “a critical industrial facility” was targeted. Also in Ukraine’s west, Russia attacked infrastructure in Transcarpathia, but the regional administration says external air defences intercepted the attack and no damage was caused.
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One thing you have to say about Trump, he doesn’t use flowery ambiguous diplomatic language. He speaks English and he says exactly what he means. That’s why people like him.
LOL. He doesn’t use “flowery” language, he uses “blustery” language!
And, yes, people like that a LOT more.
“He speaks English and he says exactly what he means.”
That’s odd. When President Trump stated that the US is going to take over Gaza, and remove the Gazans — a plan to which I objected — regulars here told me that I shouldn’t take him seriously because he was just staking out an initial bargaining position that he didn’t mean.
There, he was negotiating. The first step in negotiations is to stake out the most extreme, yet still plausible, position on the issue about which you are negotiating that you can. So you can then negotiate back from that position to what you are really willing to settle for.
Here, he is acting as a mediator.
Ok; you agree that he doesn’t always say what he means. Also, he’s not a “mediator” in this conflict. He’s a party to it, with a huge interest in the outcome, and until a few days ago was supplying military assistance to another party (Ukraine).
Do you have a point? Or are you just trying to prove someone wrong by citing a discussion they didn’t take part in and probably didn’t read?
To irishgladiator:
“Do you have a point?”
Yes: That we can’t depend upon President Trump to mean the things that he says in his public statements.
So don’t vote for him next time. Oh…
Banking sanctions? Like SWIFT.?
24 hours of her music and Putin will sign anything!
I thought we already had sanctions on Russia? Wasn’t that part of the whole “OMG, Russia is the awfulest!” foreign policy from the Biden admin? Why would there be anything left for Trump to apply?
That’s what I assumed as well. Are there not?
Perhaps he means that I’m like Biden he will actually enforce the sections. What they really need to do is go after the shadow oil tanker Fleet. Cut off that stream of income.
The costs Trump imposes have to be larger than the territorial gains that continue to happen, which is hard to do. More effective is huge increased support for Ukraine so that territorial gains stop happening.
Too bad Ukraine is running out of manpower and everything else. Russia isn’t.
I don’t think that’s as true as some do.
Russia relies on a LOT of labor to keep its economy going, I think. Putin can’t take all of that away and still fight a war. I’m not saying he doesn’t have a much deeper manpower pool than the Ukraine, but I don’t think he can go full-on “war economy” and have Russia not fall flat on its face.
Cough! Rent-an-Army from the Norks Cough!
Unfortunately the EU, thru its energy purchases, is funding this war. It sends Russia way more $ in such purchases than it sends as aid the Ukraine. Trump 1.0 warned them about becoming dependent on Russians “cheap” oil and gas, if they’d listened then there this war might never have happened, nor could they have afford a “14-day” war that became a
14+ months war.
More effective is stop spending money on Russian energy exports.
The problem with your theory is that Ukraine no longer has the Manpower. Doesn’t matter how much equipment is sent if there’s nobody to run it.
RH apparently is still willing to fight to the last Ukrainian, using American treasure to do so.
I’m sure Ukraine has plenty of discarded rifles and rucksacks, should you be willing to finally put some skin in the game.
Once this armed conflict ends, Trump will gift Putin lower energy prices.
Is this sarcasm?
Let’s just say it’s not a gift that Putin will cherish.
Russia supplies energy to a good chunk of Europe and makes a lot of money from Europe paying for the energy. Lowering energy prices will hurt Russia.
I think he’s saying that Trump will lower the price of energy with American “Drill, baby, drill!” policies, and that will hurt Putin even more because he relies to a great extent on energy (coal, oil, and gas) exports to pull in money to his economy.
“think it will work?”
“It’ll take a miracle.”
You know what would actually help? If Europe hadn’t made itself Gazproms bitch and would stop financing Russias war effort through buying their oil and gas to keep their lights on
Yes, Europe should have had the strength of their convictions; pushing NATO to Russia’s borders should be worth any amount of deindustrialization and a freezing populace.
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Watermelons all, Green on the outside with a juicy Red center.
They wouldn’t have to fear “any amount of deindustrialization and a freezing populace” if they hadn’t voluntarily shut down all their coal burning plants (instead of just cleaning the output) and slow-walked or stopped building or even shut down nuke energy, their only 24/7 100% not CO2 producing alternate option available.
And the Red Center part is displayed by the lack of censoring China for building more new coal plants than the rest of the world is shutting down. If man-made GCC is a real problem address world CO2 release and stop flying hundreds of private jets to GCC junket “conferences” that are thinly disguised family vacations and shopping trips.
France and Russia closed down their nuclear power plants by citing the dangers of disaster after Fukushima, because you know tsunamis are such a danger in France and Germany